Python Job Trends in the Thames Valley

Python
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the Thames Valley requiring Python skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 6 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 39 16 27
Rank change year-on-year -23 +11 -21
Permanent jobs citing Python 183 350 277
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 4.56% 10.16% 7.55%
As % of the Programming Languages category 31.23% 29.97% 21.83%
Number of salaries quoted 100 181 181
10th Percentile £41,250 £42,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £48,750 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £67,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +22.73% -8.33%
75th Percentile £69,063 £80,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £107,500 £83,750
South East median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +18.18% -8.33%

All Programming Languages
Thames Valley

Python falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring coding skills in the Thames Valley.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 586 1,168 1,269
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 14.59% 33.89% 34.58%
Number of salaries quoted 424 690 949
10th Percentile £33,250 £37,425 £37,500
25th Percentile £43,750 £47,500 £46,050
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £55,050
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +13.53% -8.25%
75th Percentile £70,000 £78,750 £73,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £88,875 £86,500
South East median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -4.35%

Python
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Python relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Python job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

Python
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Python.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Python

Python
Salary Histogram in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution for jobs citing Python in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 6 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Python in the Thames Valley

Python
Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Python within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 6 January 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Berkshire -30 84 £47,520 -32.11% 246
Buckinghamshire -16 51 £60,000 +1.69% 39
Oxfordshire -8 48 £67,500 - 73
Python
South East

Python
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 6 (3.28%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (0.55%) Anypoint
2 1 (0.55%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.55%) Kinematics
2 1 (0.55%) SAS
Applications
1 27 (14.75%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (2.73%) Spreadsheet
3 3 (1.64%) MadCap Flare
Business Applications
1 2 (1.09%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.55%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 61 (33.33%) Azure
2 58 (31.69%) Power Platform
3 46 (25.14%) AWS
4 31 (16.94%) GCP
5 19 (10.38%) Azure DevOps
6 16 (8.74%) Serverless
7 15 (8.20%) Amazon EC2
7 15 (8.20%) Azure AI
8 13 (7.10%) Amazon EKS
8 13 (7.10%) GitHub
9 12 (6.56%) Amazon ECS
10 8 (4.37%) Azure Data Factory
10 8 (4.37%) SaaS
11 7 (3.83%) dbt
11 7 (3.83%) Salesforce Service Cloud
12 6 (3.28%) Azure Logic Apps
12 6 (3.28%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
12 6 (3.28%) Snowflake
13 5 (2.73%) Azure Machine Learning
13 5 (2.73%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.28%) DNS
1 6 (3.28%) Firewall
1 6 (3.28%) TCP/IP
2 3 (1.64%) Internet
2 3 (1.64%) MQTT
3 2 (1.09%) 5G
3 2 (1.09%) Wireless
4 1 (0.55%) 4G
4 1 (0.55%) DHCP
4 1 (0.55%) HTTP
4 1 (0.55%) Intranet
4 1 (0.55%) MIMO
4 1 (0.55%) Modbus
4 1 (0.55%) NGN
4 1 (0.55%) Radio Access Network
4 1 (0.55%) SpaceWire
4 1 (0.55%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (26.23%) Power BI
2 27 (14.75%) Tableau
3 24 (13.11%) BigQuery
4 21 (11.48%) Relational Database
5 15 (8.20%) PostgreSQL
6 13 (7.10%) Data Warehouse
7 12 (6.56%) RDBMS
8 10 (5.46%) Metadata
9 6 (3.28%) SQL Server
10 5 (2.73%) Qlik Sense
11 3 (1.64%) Azure SQL Database
11 3 (1.64%) Data Hub
11 3 (1.64%) Data Lake
11 3 (1.64%) Looker
11 3 (1.64%) MySQL
12 2 (1.09%) Airbyte
12 2 (1.09%) Amazon Redshift
12 2 (1.09%) Snowflake Schema
12 2 (1.09%) Spark SQL
12 2 (1.09%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 23 (12.57%) Git
2 20 (10.93%) Jenkins
3 12 (6.56%) JMeter
3 12 (6.56%) JUnit
3 12 (6.56%) Mockito
4 7 (3.83%) MLflow
5 5 (2.73%) GitLab
5 5 (2.73%) Selenium
6 4 (2.19%) Cucumber
6 4 (2.19%) Postman
6 4 (2.19%) SoapUI
7 3 (1.64%) JIRA
8 2 (1.09%) SonarQube
9 1 (0.55%) Appium
9 1 (0.55%) Artifactory
9 1 (0.55%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.55%) Browser DevTools
9 1 (0.55%) Burp Suite
9 1 (0.55%) LabVIEW
9 1 (0.55%) Metasploit
General
1 67 (36.61%) Social Skills
2 34 (18.58%) Analytical Skills
3 30 (16.39%) Law
4 27 (14.75%) Finance
5 23 (12.57%) Marketing
6 18 (9.84%) Public Sector
7 14 (7.65%) Manufacturing
8 6 (3.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 5 (2.73%) Influencing Skills
9 5 (2.73%) Telecoms
10 3 (1.64%) Pharmaceutical
10 3 (1.64%) Retail
11 2 (1.09%) Automotive
11 2 (1.09%) Aviation
11 2 (1.09%) Banking
11 2 (1.09%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (1.09%) Multimedia
12 1 (0.55%) Aeronautics
12 1 (0.55%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.55%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 37 (20.22%) Analyst
2 35 (19.13%) Developer
3 27 (14.75%) Senior
4 24 (13.11%) Architect
5 23 (12.57%) Data Analyst
6 20 (10.93%) Cloud Architect
6 20 (10.93%) GCP Architect
6 20 (10.93%) Platform Architect
7 16 (8.74%) Junior
8 15 (8.20%) Junior Analyst
8 15 (8.20%) Junior Data Analyst
9 14 (7.65%) Java Developer
9 14 (7.65%) Software Engineer
10 13 (7.10%) Full-Stack Developer
11 12 (6.56%) Full-Stack Java Developer
11 12 (6.56%) Mid-Level Java Developer
12 9 (4.92%) Data Engineer
12 9 (4.92%) Lead
13 8 (4.37%) Business Intelligence Analyst
14 6 (3.28%) Salesforce Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (14.75%) REST
2 15 (8.20%) SOAP
3 14 (7.65%) HTML
3 14 (7.65%) Spring
3 14 (7.65%) Spring Boot
4 13 (7.10%) JSON
4 13 (7.10%) Web Services
4 13 (7.10%) XML
5 12 (6.56%) .NET
5 12 (6.56%) ActiveMQ
5 12 (6.56%) Apache Camel
5 12 (6.56%) Hibernate
5 12 (6.56%) jQuery
5 12 (6.56%) WireMock
6 11 (6.01%) Middleware
7 7 (3.83%) Lightning Web Components
7 7 (3.83%) Visualforce
8 6 (3.28%) scikit-learn
9 5 (2.73%) PyTorch
10 4 (2.19%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 25 (13.66%) Cloud Native
2 13 (7.10%) Distributed Systems
3 12 (6.56%) Life Science
4 10 (5.46%) Low-Code
5 6 (3.28%) Algorithms
6 5 (2.73%) Self-Motivation
7 4 (2.19%) Operational Technology
8 3 (1.64%) AI Agents
8 3 (1.64%) Animation
8 3 (1.64%) Hackathon
8 3 (1.64%) Industry 4.0
8 3 (1.64%) LIMS
8 3 (1.64%) Manufacturing Execution System
8 3 (1.64%) SCADA
9 1 (0.55%) FPGA
9 1 (0.55%) Mainframe
9 1 (0.55%) Management Information System
9 1 (0.55%) Replication
9 1 (0.55%) Robotics
9 1 (0.55%) Verilog
Operating Systems
1 23 (12.57%) Linux
2 10 (5.46%) Unix
3 7 (3.83%) Windows
4 1 (0.55%) Kali Linux
4 1 (0.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.55%) Robot Operating System
4 1 (0.55%) VxWorks
4 1 (0.55%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (31.15%) CI/CD
2 53 (28.96%) Analytics
3 52 (28.42%) Agile
4 49 (26.78%) Business Intelligence
5 40 (21.86%) AI
6 39 (21.31%) Problem-Solving
7 36 (19.67%) Continuous Improvement
8 34 (18.58%) Data Science
9 33 (18.03%) Roadmaps
10 32 (17.49%) DevOps
10 32 (17.49%) Mentoring
11 31 (16.94%) ETL
12 28 (15.30%) Strategic Roadmap
13 27 (14.75%) Computer Science
13 27 (14.75%) Decision-Making
14 26 (14.21%) Cost Optimisation
14 26 (14.21%) Machine Learning
14 26 (14.21%) Software Engineering
15 25 (13.66%) Data Modelling
16 24 (13.11%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 73 (39.89%) SQL
2 50 (27.32%) Java
3 37 (20.22%) JavaScript
4 26 (14.21%) Go
5 17 (9.29%) C++
6 15 (8.20%) C#
6 15 (8.20%) Shell Script
7 12 (6.56%) Bash
8 8 (4.37%) PowerShell
9 7 (3.83%) Apex Code
9 7 (3.83%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 6 (3.28%) C
11 5 (2.73%) Kusto Query Language
11 5 (2.73%) TypeScript
11 5 (2.73%) VBA
12 4 (2.19%) Fortran
12 4 (2.19%) PHP
12 4 (2.19%) R
13 3 (1.64%) MATLAB
14 2 (1.09%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 41 (22.40%) Degree
2 26 (14.21%) Security Cleared
3 19 (10.38%) Azure Certification
3 19 (10.38%) Master's Degree
4 10 (5.46%) Computer Science Degree
4 10 (5.46%) SC Cleared
5 7 (3.83%) PhD
6 5 (2.73%) ACCA
6 5 (2.73%) CIMA
7 3 (1.64%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (1.09%) AWS Certification
8 2 (1.09%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 2 (1.09%) Numerate Degree
9 1 (0.55%) CREST Certified
9 1 (0.55%) GPEN
9 1 (0.55%) MCSE
9 1 (0.55%) OSCP
9 1 (0.55%) RHCE
9 1 (0.55%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (9.29%) Data Quality
2 11 (6.01%) QA
3 4 (2.19%) GDPR
4 3 (1.64%) 21 CFR Part 11
4 3 (1.64%) Accessibility
4 3 (1.64%) ECSS
4 3 (1.64%) GxP
5 1 (0.55%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.55%) NIST
System Software
1 28 (15.30%) Docker
2 2 (1.09%) vCloud
2 2 (1.09%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.55%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.55%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.55%) VMware NSX
3 1 (0.55%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 49 (26.78%) Kubernetes
2 13 (7.10%) Kibana
3 12 (6.56%) Terraform
4 9 (4.92%) Ansible
5 4 (2.19%) Kubeflow
6 3 (1.64%) Argo
7 2 (1.09%) Docker Swarm
7 2 (1.09%) Rundeck
8 1 (0.55%) Control-M
8 1 (0.55%) Grafana
8 1 (0.55%) Nmap
8 1 (0.55%) PingFederate
8 1 (0.55%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.55%) Red Hat Satellite
8 1 (0.55%) SCCM
8 1 (0.55%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.55%) vCenter Server
8 1 (0.55%) WSUS
Vendors
1 27 (14.75%) Google
2 25 (13.66%) Microsoft
3 13 (7.10%) Dynatrace
4 12 (6.56%) Splunk
5 10 (5.46%) Databricks
6 9 (4.92%) Salesforce
7 7 (3.83%) MuleSoft
8 6 (3.28%) SAP
9 4 (2.19%) VMware
10 3 (1.64%) Agilent
10 3 (1.64%) Allen-Bradley
10 3 (1.64%) Red Hat
10 3 (1.64%) Siemens
10 3 (1.64%) Talend
11 2 (1.09%) Alteryx
11 2 (1.09%) Cognos
11 2 (1.09%) HubSpot
11 2 (1.09%) IBM
11 2 (1.09%) Informatica
11 2 (1.09%) Zoho